Motivational Quotes

Change

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Change

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Confucius

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.